Brand agreed, adding: “Obviously we regretted it because it became difficult to distinguish the media phenomena from the obvious impolite act.”

Likening himself to Sir David Attenborough, a fellow guest on the show, Brand said he sometime got too “excited” when doing a joke that he thought was brilliant.

“I consider myself quite a polite person right,” he told the audience. “But sometimes you get excited when you’re doing a joke and what happened, you know when David Attenborough - Sir David Attenborough - he was saying when the camera men are filming an animal and they sort of think ‘this is brilliant’ and they forget it’s actual reality.

"I sometimes think like that with comedy, I sort of I’m doing the joke, and I think ‘this is brilliant, this is brilliant’ and then you sort of realise, ‘oh that’s reality with real consequences.’

“I went ‘oh it’s only a joke’ I didn’t realise that we were part of the frequency of reality.”